| General_note: "Humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable Earl of Halifax" |
| General_note: "sold by And. Millar opposite Katharine Street in the Strand" |
| Local_note: accession date July 24, 1945 |
| General_note: inset: "A New Map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador" |
| Added_person: Miller, Andrew |
| General_note: NYHS map 9508, the first printed edition and impression of Mitchell's map, is in a much more fragile, soiled condition than NYHS map 8616 and has been backed with cloth with the four sheets joined together. |
| General_note: See note 3 for NYHS map 9508 regarding the New York Historical Society's framed copy of the 3rd edition, 1st impression (1773?) and its possible status as a "red-line" map used by John Jay or another negotiator (Albert Gallatin?) in the attempt to settle boundary disputes between England and the new United States in 1782 and 1783. |
| Extent: 1 printed map on 4 separate sheets of 2 joined pieces each |
| Dimensions: 76 x 104 cm. (each of 4 sheets) |
| Medium: black ink, with color wash, on paper backed with cloth |
| Added_person: Kitchin, Thomas |
| Local_note: There are 2 reduced, hand-drawn versions of this map in the collection: maps 2461 and 9578. |
| General_note: This is a 1st edition, 3rd impression (see Tooley, p. 86, and Richard Stephenson's "Table for Identifying Variant Editions and Impressions of [the Mitchell map]"): in the marginal notice, bottom right, the names of the publisher-bookseller Andrew Millar and of his address opposite Katharine Street in the Strand have been correctly spelled following their incorrect versions in the 1st impression (NYHS map 9508). One of the Massachusetts communities previously and incorrectly designated as Leicester in the first two impressions has now been correctly identified as Worcester. |
